Re: dselect?

From: s. keeling (keeling_at_spots.ab.ca)
Date: 10/30/04

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    Incoming from J. Hannemann:
    >
    > > I find the debian tool dselect is too hard for me,
    > > a debian newbie, :) .
    > > Is there any other tool that can do such the
    > > things that dselect can
    > > do. If there is graphic tool, that would be better.
    >
    > You can bypass dselect and use apt to install anything
    > you want. Make sure you choose "desktop environment"
    > so you get X (graphical environment).
    >
    > There is a GUI frontend for apt--synaptic.

    There's also aptitude. Others who know far more about it than me
    recommend aptitude over the alternatives.

      apt-get update
      apt-get install aptitude
      aptitude update
      aptitude upgrade
      aptitude search something
      aptitude install blah 

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